Barrow appointed to House panels

U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Athens, has gotten his final committee and subcommittee assignments in the U.S. House of Representatives, including an appointment to the Committee on Small Business.

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On the small-business committee, the freshman congressman was elected ranking Democratic member for the Subcommittee on Rural Enterprise, Agriculture and Technology.

Barrow also is a member of the 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and three subcommittees of the House Agriculture Committee: General Farm and Risk Management; Livestock and Horticulture; and Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.

Barrow represents the 12th Congressional District, which stretches from Athens through Augusta to Savannah.